23 HRS AGO - Edmund Burke Delabarre was born. An eminent psychologist, researcher and academic, Delabarre is best known for his early work on visual phenomena, sensation and the law of contrast which famously features in William James's classic Principles of Psychology in 1890, along with the footnote "From the pen of my friend and pupil Mr. E. B. Delabarre."
During his long and distinguished career, Delabarre served as the Director of the Psychological Laboratory at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Brown University.
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2 DAYS AGO - Norma Estelle Cutts was born. A pioneer in the provision of school psychological services in the Expand

2 DAYS AGO - Norma Estelle Cutts was born. A pioneer in the provision of school psychological services in the United States, her landmark publication in 1943 "How to Use Psychological Service in the Schools, A Guide to the Technique and Interpretation of the Individual Psychological Examination" was instrumental in establishing standards for training, certification, and practice.
Throughout the course of a long and distinguished career, Cutts wrote widely on a range of topics within an educational context, including, mental hygiene, discipline and intellectual giftedness. In a tribute to Norma Cutts published shortly after her death aged 96 in 1988, Thomas K. Fagan noted that "her friendship and contributions through most of American psychology's first century will be felt well into its next."
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5 DAYS AGO - B. F. Skinner was featured on the front cover of Time magazine and is the subject of three cover Expand

5 DAYS AGO - B. F. Skinner was featured on the front cover of Time magazine and is the subject of three cover stories on behavior, titled "Skinner's Utopia: Panacea, or Path to Hell?" "Twin Oaks: On to Walden Two" and "A Skinnerian Innovation: Baby in a Box."
The brilliant cover image of Skinner was drawn by renowned artist and illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz.
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9/17/2017 - Oskar Pfungst began his famous investigation into the case of "Clever Hans," a horse that could Expand

9/17/2017 - Oskar Pfungst began his famous investigation into the case of "Clever Hans," a horse that could seemingly solve mathematical problems (multiplication and division) by tapping out answers with his right hoof. However, Pfungst concluded that the explanation for this lay not in any rational thinking on the part of "Clever Hans" but rather in the almost imperceptible ideomotor movement and nuanced body language of his owner Mr. Von Osten which signaled to the horse when he was expected to start and stop tapping.
Oskar Pfungst's findings in the case of "Clever Hans" were instrumental in raising the issue of experimenter expectancy effects within research.
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9/15/2017 - Matataro Matsumoto was born. A profoundly influential figure in the history of Japanese Expand

9/15/2017 - Matataro Matsumoto was born. A profoundly influential figure in the history of Japanese psychology, Matsumoto earned his doctoral degree under the supervision of Edward W. Scripture at Yale University in 1899 and spent a year working with Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig in Germany.
On his return to Japan, Matsumoto established experimental psychology laboratories in Tokyo and Kyoto and was instrumental in the founding and organization of the Japanese Psychological Association.
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9/12/2017 - Ulric Neisser's classic book 'Cognitive Psychology' was published. This groundbreaking text located a range of research topics, such as perception, attention, pattern recognition, information processing, problem solving and remembering and explored them within a unified theoretical framework. In doing so, Neisser firmly established cognitive psychology as a mainstream psychological discipline.
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9/7/2017 - Under the heading 'The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis' Sigmund Freud delivered the first Expand

9/7/2017 - Under the heading 'The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis' Sigmund Freud delivered the first of five lectures at Clark University, an event he described as 'the first official recognition of our work.'
Freud began his landmark lecture with the words 'Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a new and somewhat embarrassing experience for me to appear as lecturer before students of the New World. I assume that I owe this honor to the association of my name with the theme of psychoanalysis, and consequently it is of psychoanalysis that I shall aim to speak.'
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9/5/2017 - The first volume of James Mark Baldwin's 'Handbook of Psychology (Senses and Intellect)' was Expand

9/5/2017 - The first volume of James Mark Baldwin's 'Handbook of Psychology (Senses and Intellect)' was published. A critically acclaimed text, Wilhelm Wundt stated that 'The book will serve a high purpose for students both as introduction to the subject and as preparation for original work' and a review in the Edinburgh Scotsman noted that 'The work is one of the most noteworthy that have appeared in recent times to vindicate the claims and establish the position of Psychology as an independent science.'
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1 DAY AGO - Albert Bandura's landmark book "Social Learning Theory" was published in which the Stanford Expand

1 DAY AGO - Albert Bandura's landmark book "Social Learning Theory" was published in which the Stanford University psychologist sets out how new patterns of behavior can be acquired through direct experience or by observing the behavior of others. Social Learning Theory is a seminal piece of work, the basic tenets of which Bandura later expanded upon in "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory," a book widely considered a modern classic within psychology. Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - Robert Thorndike was born. A brilliant psychometrician, Thorndike is best known for his Expand

3 DAYS AGO - Robert Thorndike was born. A brilliant psychometrician, Thorndike is best known for his collaborative work with Irving Lorge and Elizabeth Hagen in developing measures of mental and scholastic ability which eventually became known as "Cognitive Ability Tests."
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6 DAYS AGO - Human Factors, the flagship journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society was first Expand

6 DAYS AGO - Human Factors, the flagship journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society was first published. In his introductory essay entitled "A Home of Our Own," editor in chief Stanley Lippert noted that human factors specialists would no longer be forced to publish their work in the "literary homes of friends and relatives."
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9/14/2017 - Solomon Asch was born. A Gestalt psychologist whose classics studies on impressions of personality and social influence were profoundly influential within the field of social psychology. For example, Stanley Milgram's famous obedience to authority experiments were directly inspired by Asch's unambiguous stimuli (lines of different lengths) conformity research.
A truly eminent figure within psychology, Solomon Asch received the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions in 1967.
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9/11/2017 - Alice Bryan was born. Renowned for her unceasing efforts in tackling the marginalization of women Expand

9/11/2017 - Alice Bryan was born. Renowned for her unceasing efforts in tackling the marginalization of women in psychology, Bryan founded the National Council of Women Psychologists in 1940 and coauthored a series of influential studies issued under the title, 'Women in American Psychology' between 1944 and 1947.
A passionate advocate of mentoring, Bryan stated that 'One of my deepest satisfactions has been the appointment to professional positions of four women who were my students while earning their doctoral degrees.'
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9/9/2017 - Kurt Lewin was born. A profoundly influential figure within the field of social psychology, Lewin Expand

9/9/2017 - Kurt Lewin was born. A profoundly influential figure within the field of social psychology, Lewin was instrumental in demonstrating that experiments on groups could be conducted under precisely controlled conditions and in doing so pioneered the scientific study of group dynamics.
A prolific writer, Lewin authored several books and numerous articles which informed our understanding of group processes in relation to such things as productivity, communication, leadership, social perception, experiential learning and intergroup relations. Lewin also wrote widely on the concept of 'action research,' the term he coined to express his firmly held contention that key individuals being studied as part of a group research project, should themselves be encouraged to act as cooperating recorders, observers and analyzers.
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9/7/2017 - Science Journalist Bianca Nogrady and Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith answer your questions on the science phone-in. Topics discussed include the making of a hurricane and automation in the new age. Collapse

9/4/2017 - Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, whose mission is 'to encourage, stimulate, and maintain excellence in scholarship, and to advance the science of psychology;' was formally established with the signing of The Psi Chi Charter at Yale University during the Ninth International Congress of Psychology.
There are now over 1,100 Psi Chi chapters and more than 600,000 lifetime Psi Chi members located worldwide.
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2 DAYS AGO - Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist explore a potential new therapy for Multiple Sclerosis and Expand

2 DAYS AGO - Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist explore a potential new therapy for Multiple Sclerosis and last data from Cassini as it plunged into Saturn. In addition, we get to the bottom of how and why electric eels jump out and shock people and animals. Plus, can memories be faked and why are some sports can be linked with memory loss? Find out all this as well as the latest discovery on climate change. Download the podcast: bbc.co.uk/podcasts/5live Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Albert Beckham was born. A profoundly influential figure in the field of school psychology, Expand

4 DAYS AGO - Albert Beckham was born. A profoundly influential figure in the field of school psychology, Beckham pioneered the introduction of psychological services within public schools and established the first campus based psychological laboratory to offer counseling while teaching psychology at Howard University.
A distinguished academic and prolific writer, Beckham made a lasting contribution to our understanding of counseling, behavioral problems and life satisfaction within an educational context.
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7 DAYS AGO - Wilhelm Wundt presented a landmark paper on the personal difference between visual and auditory Expand

7 DAYS AGO - Wilhelm Wundt presented a landmark paper on the personal difference between visual and auditory observation at the Natural Science Conference at Speyer, Germany. Writing about Wundt's discipline defining address at Speyer, Edward Bradford Titchener noted that "There is no more remarkable incident in the history of experimental psychology than Wundt's attempt, by way of a single crucial experiment, to overturn the whole Herbartian psychology."
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9/16/2017 - Karen Horney was born. An eminent psychoanalytic theorist and pioneer within the field of the Expand

9/16/2017 - Karen Horney was born. An eminent psychoanalytic theorist and pioneer within the field of the psychology of women, Horney wrote widely on the androcentric (male centered) nature of orthodox Freudian thinking and psychology in general.
In addition to her influential contribution to feminine psychology, the influence of Horney's innovative and groundbreaking personality theories spread far and wide; for instance, her views on the potential for human growth were followed with great interest by the likes of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.
A truly original thinker ahead of her time, Karen Horney's ideas helped inform an eclectic mix of areas within mainstream psychology.
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9/13/2017 - William James's classic text 'Principles of Psychology' (Volume 1) was published. A tribute to James printed shortly after his death in 1910 stated that Principles of Psychology 'is a scientific and literary classic. No one can foretell whether it will be permanently in the group of philosophical masterpieces, beginning with the dialogues of Plato, but there is no contemporary American work and possibly no European work since the "Origin of Species," which has equal chance.'
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9/10/2017 - One of the most iconic photographs in the history of psychology was taken. Among those in the Expand

9/10/2017 - One of the most iconic photographs in the history of psychology was taken. Among those in the photo were Sigmund Freud, Edward Bradford Titchener, Adolf Meyer, Joseph Jastrow, James McKeen Cattell, Ernest Jones, William James, Carl Jung and G. Stanley Hall who had assembled this veritable who's who of eminence for a conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Clark University.
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9/8/2017 - The first volume of 'Character and Personality: An International Quarterly of Psychodiagnostics Expand

9/8/2017 - The first volume of 'Character and Personality: An International Quarterly of Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies' was published by Duke University. Devoted to 'scientific contributions bearing directly or indirectly on the diagnosis of human behavior, in its individual and group deviations, typological characteristics and idiosyncrasies,' the journal was supported by, and included contributions from, such luminaries as Alfred Adler, Pierre Janet and Carl Jung.
In 1945, Character and Personality: An International Quarterly of Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies changed its title to the Journal of Personality.
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9/6/2017 - Edgar John Rubin was born. Professor of Experimental Psychology and Director of the Psychological Expand

9/6/2017 - Edgar John Rubin was born. Professor of Experimental Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratory at the University of Copenhagen, Rubin is best known for his groundbreaking research on the roles of figure and ground organization in visual perception; famously illustrated in the 'vase/two faces' figure which he originally presented in his doctoral dissertation in 1915.
Rubin's influential writing in this area was adopted by Max Wertheimer and his followers as evidence of the need for a Gestalt understanding of the visual process.
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